WHAT: "Creating Actionable Microgrids through a Packaged Software Application"Kevin Kushman will discuss the importance of a product-driven approach to automating and enabling campus-based distributed energy resources in an environment of significant demand response value, cyber-security threats and ISO/utility, reviewing the need to actively shape dense load customers (commercial, industrial and institutional) to balance system supply and demand. He will contrast the execution and value advantages of an enabled microgrid vs. limited technology deployments, such as automated metering. Supported by customer examples from higher education, military and healthcare, including Duke University Medical Center, the discussion will focus on the most valuable link between the grid and critical power customers.